Sunday, October 5, 2008

Artist of the Week

Errol Morris

Morris was born in Hewlett, New York on February 5, 1948 and is an American Academy Award winning documentary film director. He received a B.A. in History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1969. Morris has received three fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Guggenheim Fellowship and a MacArthur Fellowship. He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and was a graduate student at Princeton University and the University of California-Berkeley. Morris' work received a full retrospective in November 1999 at the Museum of Modern Art in 1999 and he was given a special tribute at the Sundance Film Festival in 2001.

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Errol Morris Blog at NYT

Errol Morris website

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